Umesh Scalps 100th Wicket in the Historic Test Against Afghanistan

Umesh Yadav has achieved the milestone in his 37th Test match.

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Umesh Yadav picked up his 100th Test wicket on Friday, 15 June, becoming the eighth Indian pace bowler to achieve the landmark in the longer format of the game.

Umesh picked up Rahmat Shah as his 100th Test wicket after he trapped him plumb in front of the wickets on the second day of the historic India-Afghanistan Test match at Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru.

Umesh became the 22nd Indian Test bowler to claim hundred wickets and also eighth Indian pace bowler.

The right-arm pacer thus joined the elite list of Kapil Dev, who bagged 434 wickets in 131 tests, and Zahir Khan who grabbed 311 in 92 Tests.

Umesh Yadav, right, appeals successfully for the wicket of Afghanistan’s Rahmat Shah, left, during the visiting team’s first innings in Bangalore

Other Indian pacers who have achieved the milestone are Ishant Sharma (236), Javagal Srinath (236), Mohammad Shami (110), Karsan Ghavri (109) and Irfan Pathan (100).

All other 14 Indian bowlers who claimed 100 wickets are spinners with Anil Kumble leading the pack with 619 wickets in 132 Tests. Harbhajan Singh and Ravichandran Ashwin had snapped 417 wickets in 103 tests and 312 in 58 matches, respectively.

The list also includes the famous spin quartet of Bishen Singh Bedi, EAS Prasanna, Venkatraghavan and BS Chandasekhar, besides Dilip Doshi and Subhash Gupte.